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[Witherweaver]

Spoiler tags also don't work if you put color tags inside

Dude, you just spoiled spoiler tags.

[pacovf]

My smiley wasn't included in the [ spoiler ] ? Great, now I've ruined HIMYM forever for pacovf. Sorry

Years of watching that show, eagerly collecting every tiny bit of evidence to discover who the mother could be in expectation of the grand reveal. All that buildup, gone in a tenth of a second because of a smiley face on a thread that wasn't even related to HIMYM, despite my expressed petition not to get the finale revealed to me within minutes of the threat materialising.

All thanks to you, Teproc.

Partypooper.

[eHalcyon]

Hey, haven't we discussed the HIMYM finale in this thread before?

Yes.

By the way, I think that Tsunami Bomb - Take The Reigns would make a great song for Guitar Hero even though I've never heard it and I haven't played Guitar Hero in many years.

[WanderingWinder]

Spoiler tags also don't work if you put color tags inside

Dude, you just spoiled spoiler tags.

Yo dawg, I heard you like spoilers, so I spoiled spoilers and...


somebody help me out here, I know there's a meme in it.

[Ozle]

Just been to see 2001 at cinema, man that's a dull film with flashes of excellence

[Ozle]

Spoiler tags also don't work if you put color tags inside

Dude, you just spoiled spoiler tags.

Yo dawg, I heard you like spoilers, so I spoiled spoilers and...


somebody help me out here, I know there's a meme in it.

Does it involve a cat? I've heard you get more upvotes if you include a cat!

[SirPeebles]

it works extra well for black

[eHalcyon]

Apparently, gorillas are much less intimidating when they stand up.

[KingZog3]

Apparently, gorillas are much less intimidating when they stand up.

That made me laugh. Teehee.

[sudgy]

Mathematics and physics: teaching you the Greek alphabet without you even realizing it.

Seriously, I read an equation somewhere for the first time and recognized all three or four Greek letters in it.

[WalrusMcFishSr]

Dude I can never draw zetas and xis right. My thermo exams looked like a 4-year-old wrote them

[scott_pilgrim]

Dude I can never draw zetas and xis right. My thermo exams looked like a 4-year-old wrote them

I had one math professor who would always write one Greek letter as just a bunch of random squiggles, I could never figure out what letter it was supposed to be so whenever I needed to write it on my homework I always just tried to copy his squiggle patterns.

[Axxle]

http://www.donaldguy.com/Flappy-Doge2048/

[florrat]

http://spikedmath.com/498.html

[ConMan]

Dude I can never draw zetas and xis right. My thermo exams looked like a 4-year-old wrote them

My personal favourite was something like capital Xi over Xi with an overbar. Written quickly, it's just 8 horizontal lines of random length.

[qmech]

I once had a sadistic examiner who set partial differential equations in the variables xi and eta.  The very first line of my answer was "Let X = xi and Y = eta."

[pacovf]

Dude I can never draw zetas and xis right. My thermo exams looked like a 4-year-old wrote them

I had one math professor who would always write one Greek letter as just a bunch of random squiggles, I could never figure out what letter it was supposed to be so whenever I needed to write it on my homework I always just tried to copy his squiggle patterns.

That has to be lower-case xi. Most of my teachers through college have written that letter as a spring of random length (or as an open loop of random winding number n should you close it, where n € [|2,5|], for the more maths-inclined).

I once had a sadistic examiner who set partial differential equations in the variables xi and eta.  The very first line of my answer was "Let X = xi and Y = eta."

I wish I could upvote this more than once.

[SirPeebles]

Mathematics and physics: teaching you the Greek alphabet without you even realizing it.

Seriously, I read an equation somewhere for the first time and recognized all three or four Greek letters in it.

I always have students drawing lambdas backwards or calling the rhos and omegas p and w.  Maybe I should begin my classes with a primer on the Greek alphabet.  I'm not sure if I've ever needed Hebrew in my classes.

[shraeye]

Going way back to definitions of e, my favorite is lim(x->∞) (1 + 1/x)^x = e  (I have no idea how you are supposed to write limits in horizontal form )

LaTeX~

\lim_{x -> \infty} (1+1/x)^x = e

(or \rightarrow instead of ->).....use \to

[SirPeebles]

Going way back to definitions of e, my favorite is lim(x->∞) (1 + 1/x)^x = e  (I have no idea how you are supposed to write limits in horizontal form )

I write them the same way you did, since it is more legible than TeX.

As a minor nitpick, I would say e = lim(n->∞)(1+1/n)^n.  The reason is because the variable n is implicitly assumed to be a whole number, while x is implicitly assumed to be an arbitrary real number.  While both statements are true, defining irrational powers is a bit subtle.  In fact, one common approach is to first define exp(x) and ln(x) without reference to irrational exponents, and then define a^x = exp(x ln(a)).

[Kirian]

Going way back to definitions of e, my favorite is lim(x->∞) (1 + 1/x)^x = e  (I have no idea how you are supposed to write limits in horizontal form )

I write them the same way you did, since it is more legible than TeX.

As a minor nitpick, I would say e = lim(n->∞)(1+1/n)^n.  The reason is because the variable n is implicitly assumed to be a whole number, while x is implicitly assumed to be an arbitrary real number.  While both statements are true, defining irrational powers is a bit subtle.  In fact, one common approach is to first define exp(x) and ln(x) without reference to irrational exponents, and then define a^x = exp(x ln(a)).

...

OK, so that's how the log of log scale works on my slide rule!

[florrat]

[SirPeebles]

I've become such a Sean Carroll fanboy lately.  This public lecture that he gave on the Higgs boson and the future of experimental physics last year is amazing.  The half hour of questions from the audience at the end is better than usual too.

[ashersky]

Heh, I got an infraction on another forum for using the phrase, "beer and skittles."

I'm all for moderation where needed (especially in a video game forum with a bunch of kids), but getting an infraction for "beer and skittles"? I had much rolling of eyes.

Is there some other meaning that I'm missing?  Like the vegan family who was denied the license plate "I [heart] TOFU"

Edit:  Ah, apparently it is an old idiom.  And here I thought that the candy company invented the word skittles.

I get that TOFU is the beginning of a phrase.  But skittles?  Wikipedia has nothing naughty on it.  Can someone explain the joke, thereby making it funnier?

[Axxle]

Heh, I got an infraction on another forum for using the phrase, "beer and skittles."

I'm all for moderation where needed (especially in a video game forum with a bunch of kids), but getting an infraction for "beer and skittles"? I had much rolling of eyes.

Is there some other meaning that I'm missing?  Like the vegan family who was denied the license plate "I [heart] TOFU"

Edit:  Ah, apparently it is an old idiom.  And here I thought that the candy company invented the word skittles.

I get that TOFU is the beginning of a phrase.  But skittles?  Wikipedia has nothing naughty on it.  Can someone explain the joke, thereby making it funnier?

"beer and skittles" is a phrase that roughly means "fun and games".  Skittles is a game similar to bowling. Skittles doesn't mean anything naughty, the fact that Kuildeous mentioned the word beer in a forum with a bunch of underage people despite the context used is what got him the infraction, hence why it's so ridiculous.